Patents by Inventor Ellen J. Baron

Ellen J. Baron has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Quantitative test for bacterial pathogens
    Patent number: 7718361
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for analyzing the presence of a bacterial pathogen in a clinical sample comprising the steps of (i) at least partially isolating nucleic acid from said sample, characterized in that said nucleic acid is selected from a group consisting of either total nucleic acid, total DNA or total RNA, (ii) quantifying the amount of nucleic acid comprising a preselected sequence which is specific for said bacterial pathogen, and (iii) determining whether said amount of nucleic acid comprising a preselected sequence which is specific for said bacterial pathogen exceeds a first predetermined cut off value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignees: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Ellen J. Baron, Wolf-Dieter Engel, Gerd Haberhausen, Peter Kaspar, Andreas M. Kogelnik